My name is Michael Padilla and I am a business economics major. Growing up I was definitely more on the art culture side. One of my favorite things to do is to listen to music and I eventually want learn how to make music. I also plan on designing clothes as a side business in the near future. For some reason science never really fascinated me and it was usually my lowest grade in school.
In today's world science and technology are deemed far more superior than art and literature. This is
probably why non-scientists tend to think of scientists as brash and boastful (Snow 5). The conflict
between these two cultures is relevant in my life, specifically at my own school. The south side
of campus is considered to be for more intelligent students who are STEM majors, while the north side of
campus is regarded as inferior because it is for arts majors. As a business economics major, I will
say that the south side students are a little more cocky but I don't blame them. As stated in the Professor's
academic journal, "Snow identified the two cultures as those of literary intellectuals and natural scientists,
and he pointed to the curricula of schools and universities as the source of the problem" (Vesna 121). I
found this ironic considering the literal and physical divide between these two cultures on campus.
Literary intellectuals are not communicating with scientists and scientists are communicating directly with the general public, taking the place of the traditional intellectual (Rowe 2003). Snow stated that there would be "third culture" that closes the gap between the literary intellectuals and the scientists but this obviously never occurred. Instead, the culture of science and art now has another orientation to contend with, one from its own rib (Kelly 1998). Overall these perspectives were intriguing and it has made me look at these two cultures differently. These two sides must put aside their pride and stop burning bridges. I now equally value these two cultures and I hope to see more cooperation between the two, especially at UCLA.
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Hi Michael, I really enjoyed reading your blog post. I agree that the culture divide is definitely apparent on campus at UCLA. Do you think that if there was not a physical separation between the STEM and Art's sections of campus, that these two cultures could better reconcile?
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